Comment by WhyNotHugo
4 years ago
Double click on the titlebar on MacOS means "expand as much as possible to fit all content". Not "maximise".
Of course, I'd argue that maximise is the intuitive thing to expect, but the behaviour is not strictly broken, just... odd.
Strictly speaking it’s just different.
The behavior is inherited from the classic Mac OS which initially predates and was developed contemporaneously with Windows. Apple assigned one behavior and Microsoft assigned another. To the extent that one is “more intuitive” it’s because your expectations as to what should happen is different, and “maximize” is a lot easier to behaviorally define, describe and program than “zoom” so GUI programmers preferred it, or knew it better because the behavior and conventions they mimicked in X window managers were taken from what Microsoft was doing at the time.
When screen resolutions are 640x480 or 800x600 or even 1024x768, maybe you just want maximize all the time; but maximize is an anti-feature to me on anything bigger.
That's where window snapping comes into play. Maximize + Snapping is a much better system that "a hundred arbitrarily sized and arbitrarily overlapping windows". It's very much the opposite of finesse.
I disagree, but I respect your opinion. Overlapping arranged windows is exactly what I’ve become accustomed to and like using. Side-by-side or “snapped” windows are not my cup of tea.
Agreed.